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People say google is a filter bubble, but I've forced myself for years to use DDG on most of my machines and it's not a filter bubble. DDG is just terrible at f
by stuntkite 7y ago
People say google is a filter bubble, but I've forced myself for years to use DDG on most of my machines and it's not a filter bubble. DDG is just terrible at finding useful results even for basic things. Especially searching for programming related things it seems to prefer sites or posts that are a few years old. 95% of my searches retreat to using !g pretty quick. I don't know why I keep adding the extra step. It's like I'm pitching a penny of idealism into a bottomless well hoping it'll turns into a geyser.
- thinkingemote 7y agoPeople advocate for DDG not because it's better search but because it's better for you. In the similar way that people advocate using free and open source software and not proprietary.
- stuntkite 7y agoI get that and that's why I use it. But the 95% !g rate makes it a cargo cult exercise. DDG is our best option, but it's not even close to what it needs to be and that's probably because it's copying the biz model of the big guys but can't do well because of the restrictions that make it attractive as an idol. I suspect that if anything ever delivers on an open promise of web search it will operate very differently and may not show up in the next 5-10 years.
- bduerst 7y agoExcept DDG is a for-profit company that is not open source - one which doesn't submit to third party audits or validate their privacy claims. As a small company, they don't have much to lose either if they did sell your data since they're essentially just a reskin of other search engines.